Development of an Automated Heat Forming System for Composite Helmet Manufacturing
Goopter is an innovative technology organization exploring smart manufacturing, automation, and mechatronic systems integration for industrial process improvement. We are currently developing an economic, small-scale automation system for forming composite helmet shells — aiming to demonstrate how Industry 4.0 technologies can be applied to low-cost manufacturing environments. This project focuses on automating a manual composite forming process that currently uses a handheld heat gun and manual pressing to shape layered materials (e.g., Kevlar, fiberglass) over a mold. Learners will design, simulate, and build a semi-automated forming station that uses: - Controlled infrared (IR) or hot-air heating - Pneumatic or servo-driven pressure system - Temperature and pressure sensors - Digital control interface (microcontroller or PLC) - Optional IoT/SCADA dashboard for process monitoring The goal is to produce a working prototype demonstrating consistency, safety, and process data collection suitable for scalable manufacturing. Project Objectives Design and develop an automated or semi-automated forming station for composite materials, limit the material cost for building each machine within $1500 budget; Integrate sensors and control systems for real-time process feedback (temperature, pressure, timing). Implement data acquisition and visualization (via IoT or SCADA platform). Allow remote monitoring and control via Internet, automatically record the manufacturing process, and auto count the productivity for each machine; auto generate daily report; Optimize process parameters to improve forming quality, reduce manual labor, and ensure uniform heat application. Demonstrate the system as a proof-of-concept Industry 4.0 workstation Key Activities for Learners Research: Study current manual forming techniques and identify automation opportunities. Design: Create CAD models of the forming station, select components (mechanical and electronica parts, actuators, heaters, sensors); do incremental design and development - verify the performance improvement of the structural design with manual intervention, then add in more automation and reduce manual intervention, so on and so force; Build & Integrate: Assemble a prototype using available tools, test and choose 1-2 best viable design; Program & Test: Develop control logic (microcontroller/PLC), calibrate heating cycles, and record process data; Analyze & Document: Present findings with performance metrics and recommendations for full-scale deployment.
AI Chatbot for food ordering
The "AI Chatbot for Food Ordering" project aims to develop an intelligent conversational agent that streamlines the food ordering process for users in restaurants, delivery apps, or online platforms. Leveraging natural language processing (NLP) and machine learning technologies, the chatbot will interact with users via text or voice inputs to browse menus, recommend items based on preferences, handle customizations, process payments(lower priority), and confirm orders. This solution addresses common pain points in food ordering, such as long wait times, menu navigation challenges, and personalization needs, by providing a seamless, 24/7 accessible interface. The project will focus on integrating the chatbot with existing backend systems (e.g., databases for menu items and order tracking) while ensuring user privacy, accuracy in responses, and multilingual support for broader accessibility. Project Goals Enhance User Experience : Create an intuitive and engaging chatbot interface that allows users to place orders quickly and efficiently, reducing friction in the ordering process. Improve Order Accuracy and Personalization : Utilize AI algorithms to analyze user preferences, past orders, and dietary restrictions to offer tailored recommendations and minimize errors. Automate Backend Processes : Integrate the chatbot with eCommerce system via API for placing order and making payment, automate order fulfillment and real-time updates. Ensure Scalability and Reliability : Design the system to handle high volumes of concurrent users, with robust error handling and fallback mechanisms for complex queries. Promote Accessibility and Inclusivity : Support multiple languages, voice interactions, and compatibility with various devices to make food ordering accessible to diverse user groups.
AI assisted crypto currency forecast tool
The goal of this project is for students to leverage AI tools to analyze cryptocurrency market data and extract meaningful insights that can improve strategic trading decision-making. Through this analysis, we aim to identify trends, develop predictive mitigation strategies, and enhance our overall price prediction. The insights gained will directly inform market price changes, enabling more informed and data-driven decision-making. The project is based on a given open-source system, which is A Foundation Model for the Language of Financial Markets.
AI assisted crypto currency forecast tool
The goal of this project is to create an AI tool to analyze cryptocurrency market data and extract meaningful insights that can improve strategic trading decision-making. Through this AI assisted analysis, we aim to identify trends, develop predictive mitigation strategies, and enhance our overall price prediction. The insights gained will directly inform market price changes, enabling more informed and data-driven decision-making. The project is based on a given open-source system, which is A Foundation Model for the Language of Financial Markets.
Develop a detailed business plan for an OTC cryptocurrency exchange service
The project aims to develop a detailed business plan for an OTC cryptocurrency exchange service in Canada, including market analysis, regulatory compliance, competitive analysis, financial projections, a marketing strategy, a regional expansion plan, milestones, and risk management, providing a comprehensive roadmap for a successful launch and sustainable growth.
Sales Rep Performance and Commission Management Portal
The goal of this project is to improve a web-based referral and sales management portal for Goopter eCommerce Solution. The portal will be used to track the performance and commission income of sales representatives. The system should be accessible by both admin and salesperson users. Key functionalities include user management for sales reps, merchant record tracking, sales report generation, and the ability to upload and parse sales records from Excel files. The project is developed with Laravel 11, MySQL, and PHP 8.2, and will be deployed on a CentOS 9 with Nginx. This project will allow learners to apply their knowledge of web development, database management, and server deployment.
Goopter eCommerce Solution AI Assisted Interactive Text/Voice chat based Ordering System
The main goal of this project is to build an AI assisted interactive Text/Voice chat based ordering system and have integration with existing ordering system via API. This will involve several different steps for the students, including: - Designing and developing an AI-assisted interactive voice ordering system. - Integrating the AI-assisted interactive Text/Voice chat based ordering system with the existing ordering system via API. - Testing the developed system and making improvements based on additional data.
Sales Rep Performance and Commission Management Portal
The goal of this project is to create a web-based referral and sales management portal for Goopter eCommerce Solution. The portal will be used to track the performance and commission income of sales representatives. The system should be accessible by both admin and salesperson users. Key functionalities include user management for sales reps, merchant record tracking, sales report generation, and the ability to upload and parse sales records from Excel files. The project will be developed using Laravel 11, MySQL, and PHP 8.2, and will be deployed on a Linux server with Nginx. This project will allow learners to apply their knowledge of web development, database management, and server deployment.
web based referral and sales management portal
Design & develop a web based referral and sales management portal, to keep track of the sales rep's performance and commission income and payout. 1. create a module to manage sales rep, each sales will contain name, email, number, mailing address, join date, status (active, in-active, disabled), merchant count, sales total etc. 2. create merchant records to keep track of the merchant information, and merchant monthly transaction records; 3. each sales can associate with one or multiple merchants; show sales report based on the conditions: sales, start date, end date, commission income, payout, balance; 4. system will allow admin to upload excel file which contains sales records of each merchant, able to parse the records and add into database; 5. design and develop the system based on Laravel 10, php8.2 more details will be provided later on.
Goopter eCommerce Solution AI Assisted Interactive Text/Voice chat based Ordering System
The main goal of this project is to build an AI assisted interactive Text/Voice chat based ordering system and have integration with existing ordering system via API. This will involve several different steps for the students, including: - Designing and developing an AI-assisted interactive voice ordering system. - Integrating the AI-assisted interactive Text/Voice chat based ordering system with the existing ordering system via API. - Testing the developed system and making improvements based on additional data.
Website/web app/mobile app Development
We have multiple options for the web or mobile development project. You may choose one of the following: 1. Update and revamp our existing website . We would like to collaborate with students to first make improvements to the existing website and then develop a new website that is easy to maintain, offering an appealing interface for users using WordPress. Required skill sets: HTML, JavaScript, PHP, MySQL, React. Tasks involved: - Enhancing the current website's design and functionality. - Constructing a new user-friendly website with our guidance on content. - Implementing search engine optimization on each page and optimizing performance. - Providing training for updating and maintaining the website. - Potential bonus steps include testing prototypes with customers and refining ideas based on feedback. 2. Build a web frontend portal based on the React + Redux tech stack . Responsibilities: - Familiarizing yourself with the existing web applications. - Addressing bug fixes and making improvements. - Progressing to the next stage of adding new features after mastering bug fixes and minor enhancements. - An online tutorial for React/Redux will be provided as a reference. 3. Enhancements, bug fixes & new features for Android/iOS mobile apps. Duties: - Getting acquainted with the current Android or iOS mobile applications. - Rectifying bugs and introducing improvements. - Advancing to the phase of integrating new features once proficiency is demonstrated in bug fixes and minor enhancements. - Required tech stacks: Android Studio + Kotlin or Xcode + Swift. Please let me know if there are any further changes you'd like to make.
Goopter eCommerce Solution AI Assisted Interactive Voice Ordering System
The main goal of this project is to build an AI assisted interactive voice ordering system and have integration with existing ordering system via API. This will involve several different steps for the students, including: design and develop an AI-assisted interactive voice ordering system, able to interact with customer via voice chat, verify customer request with existing inventory, confirm and generate requested items list and options (size, color, flavor, add-on etc.), and calculate the total amount of the order; properly use LLM, ChatGPT API, NLP, and other Opensource code to make it be effective and efficient; make sure each response time should be no more than 1.5 second; testing the developed system and making improvements based on additional data.
web based referral and sales management portal
Design & develop a web based referral and sales management portal, to keep track of the sales rep's performance and commission income and payout. 1. create a module to manage sales rep, each sales will contain name, email, number, mailing address, join date, status (active, in-active, disabled), merchant count, sales total etc. 2. create merchant records to keep track of the merchant information, and merchant monthly transaction records; 3. each sales can associate with one or multiple merchants; show sales report based on the conditions: sales, start date, end date, commission income, payout, balance; 4. system will allow admin to upload excel file which contains sales records of each merchant, able to parse the records and add into database; 5. design and develop the system based on Laravel 10, php8.2 more details will be provided later on.
Virtual Internship Opportunity: Computer Science
Our organization is able to offer a virtual internship opportunity for up to 4 computer science students or teams. Students may choose one of the following areas for the practicum: CMS website design/improvements using WordPress; Frontend web development using React/Redux; Software testing, blackbox testing and test automation; Python digital marketing automation tool, software solution with sales automation, adopt of machine learning technology; CMS Website Development - building a fully-functioning WordPress website based on given samples/mockups. Frontend web Development - enhance our existing internal web applications on the frontend side, add new features, bug fixes; Machine Learning Software Solution - Creating a recommendation engine; spotting trends in existing data; spotting anomalies in data sets. Our goal at the end of this experience is: Website Development - For the student(s) to complete a fully functioning CMS website. Frontend web Development - For the student(s) to improve existing frontend web application and create new fully functioning feature; Software testing - For the student(s) to help us implement unit testing and test automation, integrate with build and deployment process; Python digital marketing automation tool, For the student(s) to help us develop effective automation tool that can reduce the repetitive work for digital marketing. Other duties the student may complete could include : UI/UX analysis, improve UI/UX of existing applications; Assisting with other process improvement projects Unit and integration testing Mobile app development, help with improving UI/UX for the existing Android or iOS mobile applications; We will plan to communicate with our virtual intern using these communication tools: company slack & email Student's primary contact : Michael Day, CEO Secondary contact: Jae Choe, Software Developer There's no payment for the practicum, however, there's potential full time job for interns who can demonstrate outstanding performance during the internship.
Digital Content Creation
We would like students to help us with creating content that is aligned with our vision, mission, and sector. We will ensure the student has a clear understanding of what these elements are for our organization. We are a Vancouver based tech company specializing in providing comprehensive digital ordering system and delivery robots for restaurants & retail stores, we would like to get interns to help with digital marketing our products and solutions for dining automation & online ordering solution for small businesses. To accomplish this, we expect the student(s) will: Write blog articles, email newsletters/sequences and other content pieces on assigned topics Assist with a social media video launch to promote our organization Evaluate recent successful user-generated campaigns, preferably in our sector Identify media outlets that are most beneficial to share our story Ultimately, you will be working on content creation for our organization, including video, social media, and other collateral that we can use as go-to marketing tools. If you like the sound of our culture, and are ready to tackle this challenge with us, then we'd love to hear from you. A student or team with excellent writing and video skills would be the ideal candidate for this project. If the student can help with communicating with potential clients and close the sales deal, we do offer sales commission as bonus.
Marketing Strategy Plan
We want students to help us build a marketing strategy plan to grow and engage our target market: {digital ordering solution for small businesses that mostly targeting customers from local communities, e.g. restaurants, retail stores) . We’d like to know how we can maximize use of different channels and get recommendations to improve our market awareness. The main questions we’d like students to help us answer are the following: What channels should we utilize for promotion, including ones we are not currently using? Please help us develop a most cost effective marketing strategy to promote our brand awareness, and reach more clients. We have very limited budget for the marketing, however, we are willing to offer long term referral bonus to whoever can bring clients to us, the referee can receive referral commission each month when the referred client pay us; How could our messaging be updated to better explain our value proposition? Help us to develop digital marketing strategies, and help with composing sales scripts that can be used for phone call, email, forum posting, social media outreach etc.
French Translation for web & mobile applications
Goopter is a Vancouver-based SaaS(software as service) company offering multi-language eCommerce solutions for small businesses. We help businesses quickly create and own an online ordering website/mobile app without any coding or designing experience; we have multiple applications that are designed for different purposes. Each of the applications can support multi-languages; we are looking for help to add the French, Spanish, German, and Arabic translations for the web and mobile applications. We will provide the resource file for the English translation, and the students need to help with adding the corresponding translations and go over the actual web page or mobile app to make sure the translation fits the context. Each resource file requires about 1200- 2000 lines of translations; about half of them are less than six words. During the internship, the student will work directly with the development team and myself; we will communicate via email, slack, or skype. Here’s a list of the applications that need the translations: Web applications : Goopter consumer web application; Goopter business portal web application; Mobile applications: Goopter consumer mobile application; Goopter biz mobile application; Goopter biz desktop application; Our system diagram: https://www.goopter.com/download/web/goopter-system-diagram-en.pdf Here’s a flyer and 3 min video about our eCommerce solution for your reference: https://www.goopter.com/download/web/goopter-flyer_en_2021-with-trial-web.pdf https://vimeo.com/469053781
Strategic Prospecting Plan
Number of individual students required: (3 students) To become a proactive sales team, we need assistance developing an outreach process. We would like to equip our sales team with a plan that guides them in researching new prospects, identifying key contacts, and reaching out with compelling messages. We would like you to create a simple step-by-step strategy for prospecting in our target market. The project may include, but is not limited to: Identifying new potential accounts that align with our current customer base. Compiling relevant market information. Building a customizable outreach script. Creating a simple tracking framework, including metrics, for measuring outreach success. The final project deliverable is a report including research, analysis, and recommendations. It should assist our sales team in successfully prospecting within our target market with actionable recommendations that will increase sales conversions.
SEO and Social Media Strategy
Number of individual students required: ( 2 students) Our team is looking for a social media marketing wizard who can help us drive more traffic and improve our SEO positioning. The primary project requirements include: Keyword analysis to determine relevant search terms to our organization A strategy document to outline: Search Engine Optimisation (SEO) requirements to ensure our organization appears on the first page of Google for relevant keywords Social media requirements to increase the number of followers/likes and share Content Calendar Execution: Timely deployment of all our social media content to drive maximum traffic to our site Creating engaging content for prominent media websites Working with tools and programs such as WebCEO We’re excited to work with students who can help us not only brainstorm, but also execute a strategy to achieve: Being the top-ranked result for the keywords ''restaurant online order solution, restaurant eCommerce website, restaurant order website; This is a great project for students to prove their digital marketing expertise to future employers, as the impact of their work on this project can be easily measured and communicated.